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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically);


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay;
- Example: "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"
- Example: "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
[syn: decadent, effete]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a. Decaying; deteriorating. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Decadent \De*ca"dent\, n. One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a certain school of modern French writers. The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of realists. --C. L. Dana. The business men of a great State allow their State to be represented in Congress by "decadents". --The Century. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

decadent adj 1: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" [syn: decadent, effete] n 1: a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "decadent": abandoned, coming apart, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, cracking, crumbling, debased, debauched, decaying, declining, degenerate, degenerating, degenerative, degraded, depraved, deteriorating, disintegrating, dissipated, dissolute, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, falling off, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, immoral, languishing, marcescent, morally polluted, on the wane, perverted, pining, polluted, profligate, regressive, reprobate, retrograde, retrogressive, rotten, self-indulgent, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, steeped in iniquity, subsiding, tabetic, tainted, vice-corrupted, vitiated, waning, warped, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening